Further, ISPs are arguing that they too believe in net neutrality principles. But does their purported support of net neutrality principles align with the original definition of net neutrality that was first advanced by their opponents?

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Christopher Lewis (@ChrisJ_Lewis) is Vice President at Public Knowledge. He leads the organization’s advocacy on Capitol Hill and other government agencies. Prior to joining Public Knowledge in 2012, Chris served at the Federal Communications Commission as Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs.

At the FCC, Chris advised the FCC Chairman on legislative and political strategy. He is a former U.S. Senate staffer for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Chris also has over 15 years’ worth of advocacy experience. Previously, Chris worked as the North Carolina Field Director for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign.

Chris serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Local Self Reliance. He also represents Public Knowledge on the Board of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG). Chris graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelors degree in Government. He lives in Alexandria, VA where he loves working on local civic issues and is elected to the Alexandria City Public School Board.

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Trump’s manufacturing council disbands

After he made insensitive remarks following racial unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia the weekend before last, Trump was forced to shut down his manufacturing advisory council. Several CEOs had decided to resign from the council after Trump failed to denounce the KKK and White Nationalists, saying instead that there had been “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.” He then backtracked reading a prepared statement, only to go back to saying all sides were at fault for the violence. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich was among the CEOs to resign from the council. Steven Musil reports in CNET. But the American Tech Council remains intact, although the CEOS of Google, Apple and Microsoft wrote internal memos distancing themselves from the administration. That’s in next.gov.

The deal would also give Sinclair a much larger presence in cities, including New York City, where it would own WPIX Channel 11. When he was an FCC Commissioner, Pai even ripped language, almost verbatim, from Sinclair’s own filings. Pai used the language to bolster his official legal arguments in support of Sinclair’s opposition to the Wheeler FCC’s crackdown on joint sales agreements. Then, just 10 days after he became FCC Chairman, Pai relaxed those restrictions. Since becoming Chairman, Pai has also relaxed some TV ownership limits. Cecilia Kang, Eric Lipton and and Sydney Ember report in The New York Times.

Federal Judge: LinkedIn must allow startup access to data–for now

U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen in San Francisco has ordered Microsoft’s LinkedIn to open up its public data to a third-party startup. The startup, hiQ Labs, scrapes data LinkedIn users post publicly and uses it to predict which employees are likely to leave their jobs. Microsoft argues that hiQ’s practices violate the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But Judge Chen isn’t buying it. He says that law doesn’t apply to publicly available data. Jacob Gershman reports for the Wall Street Journal.

The case had already been up to the Supreme Court, which sent it back down to determine the degree of harm caused by the wrong information. While the damages in this case are minor, only around $1,000, it is seen as having significant implications for large tech companies like Facebook and Google that publish a variety of different types of consumer information.

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